News and opinion website. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington is next. Ist good morning, it monday, september 23, 2019. Scrutiny over President Trumps reactions to ukraine have led for renewed calls for impeachment. Also acknowledged yesterday that joe biden came up in that july call. This morning on the washington journal, we are getting your reaction to this story as phone lines are split as usual by political party. Is thets, 2027488000 number. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also text us and if you do, please include your name and where you are from. That number, 2027488003. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good monday morning, you can start calling in now. It was the washington journal over the weekend that led the that julyorting about phone call with President Trump. The wall street journal w
The u. S. Embassy calling on the u. S. To push through a bill that would give them greater powers to safeguard hong kongs autonomy and as i mentioned the protesters are now sending out an International Appeal for help and their efforts and jim brown has more on that part of the story obviously these protesters want global attention their target on sunday the United States. To chinas leaders this will fuel their suspicions that foreign powers a behind the 3 and a half months of unrest in hong kong the protest his message is for the u. S. Congress and the act they want passed that would lead to close a scrutiny of human rights in hong kong and u. S. Sanctions against hong kong leaders he wants to u. S. Congress to pas that hong kong human rights and you know see as as chance was about this you were so important for us because you can selectively punish those off issues who trample on our freedom riot police blocked the road in front of the consulate and were braced for trouble. As in pre
A theme like lives matter is here all sorts of groups from different parts of the community are protesting the drivers obviously around d. C. Are pretty angry but as the presses point out there is a Climate Emergency under way so you might have to have a bit of a slow commutes at least today lets turn to other news now and at least 40 people have been killed in afghanistan in whats believed to have been an air strike that happens in the muscle collar region of Helmand Province people have gone that arent sign to locals facility wounded are being treated authorities are investigating reports that the airstrike hit a wedding celebration a mistake correspondent robin wright has more from kabul. This seems to have been a Major Military operation in the mussa color district of Helmand Province this is a known taliban stronghold involving both it seems Ground Forces and also an airstrike now the ministry of defense here in kabul is talking about this in terms of being a successful military o
A north dakota and minnesota in the canadian prairies as a result of this thing he has his own see quite a big temperature difference in fact as a Winter Weather warning out for montana but the temps difference exists for the south as well as developing a line through the plains states with about 10 degrees on the side so a lot of rain potential thunderstorms drifting slowly southeast woods as you might expect for the next couple of days as warm to the east search yards degrees anywhere from atlanta right up almost all to us certainly its the Canadian Border and to the west of that the the winter cold is stopped producing anything in the form of snow showers for montana but we still got 16 degrees in seattle 22 in San Francisco and the cloud is just cloud and stormy stuff through out the gulf of mexico and the caribbean is a lot of plans a lot of potential as a Tropical Storm developing here but it should stay in the water loads of potentially heavy showers in the Lesser Antilles the s
We meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter. Hello im come on santa maria this is counting the cost on aljazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week oil shock not only an attack on the heart of saudi arabias Oil Facilities but on Global Supply the billions spent on air defenses proved to be useless against suspected drones and cruise missiles with an impact what happens next and if the markets are ready. Im really mohamed on the island of borneo where indonesias new capital is to be built well tell you why people here are so concerned. And why the almighty dollar is the talk of economic and political life in argentina as the country teeters on the brink of another debt default. It was by any measure and or days attack the worst attack on middle east Oil Facilities since Saddam Hussein set fire to kuwaits oil wells back in 1990 drones or maybe cruise missiles traveling 500 kilometers across saudi territory undetected to strike at t